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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Reading is a learned skill our brains develop over time, not an innate ability at birth.
Chapter 3: The digital age is reshaping our deep reading skills, even as we need them more than ever.
Chapter 4: Our attention grows increasingly fragmented, which impairs deep reading.
Chapter 5: Children are especially vulnerable to fragmented attention spans, which seriously affects the development of their brains.
Chapter 6: Parents reading to their children boost their overall development far more than screens ever could.
Chapter 7: The United States faces a severe reading crisis, which makes it essential that children of all ages receive support and guidance.
Chapter 8: To be ready for tomorrow, we should nurture children’s brains with the best of both worlds.
Chapter 9: Safeguarding our third life as readers preserves our capacity to turn knowledge into wisdom.
Description
Reader, Come Home (2018) is a meditation on the future of reading in the age of digital revolution and diminishing attention spans. Drawing on the latest neuroscientific research, Maryanne Wolf unpacks the cultural and cognitive dimensions of a technological transformation that’s reshaped our relationship with the written word. At the heart of her investigation is a question whose answer will determine how our societies will look in the future: What will reading mean to our children, a generation which has never known a world without Google, smartphones and e-books?
Who Should Listen
- Bibliophiles who wonder why it’s gotten so hard to focus on reading
- E-readers nostalgic about yesteryear’s paper-and-ink books
- Parents worried about their children’s use of digital devices